Well I fired up my old Indigo last weekend after replacing a dead battery. Great machine - but it sure would be nice to have some basic Nekoware stuff (how spoiled I've become!). So I took advantage of the fact we have such a great resource of detailed compilation instructions, patches and complete distribution files and began to "respin" existing Nekoware packages as mips3.

The basic procedure is to do a 'keep *' on a mips4 nekoware package followed by a 'install neko_somepackage.opt.*' to get the goodies needed for a recompile (instructions, source, patches and dist files). All compilation was done on IRIX 6.5.22/MIPSpro 7.4.4m on an Indigo R4400.

It's only been a few days but I've already put together enough to become useful including basic utilities (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.), fun stuff like dexter1's XMMS and GQMPEG, server goodies like Postfix, BIND9, OpenSSL/OpenSSH and more.

Everything should just work unless I missed stripping out a 'mach' dependency in one of the dist files (got bit by that at the outset). If these packages prove useful to someone, great - if not, hey, I've got some stuff to play with on my Indigo now

Amazing news Neko! ...and I think you'll increase very sensibly the usefulness for MIPS3 boxes! ...It is really great!, I'm sure I'll have good use for these new software collection at some point. Thanks!

The Bandito wrote:In a few years, no doubt, you'll be able to buy a computer,software and operating system that will match the capabilitiesof your current Amiga at about the price you paid for theAmiga way back when. But you can smile to yourself, knowingthat you were touching the future years before the rest ofthe world. And that other computers and operating systemswill do with brute force what the Amiga did years before withgrace, elegance and style.

The Bandito wrote:In a few years, no doubt, you'll be able to buy a computer,software and operating system that will match the capabilitiesof your current Amiga at about the price you paid for theAmiga way back when. But you can smile to yourself, knowingthat you were touching the future years before the rest ofthe world. And that other computers and operating systemswill do with brute force what the Amiga did years before withgrace, elegance and style.